Spenser Thompson has an MLIS and has worked in academic and special libraries in California. He also has degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (Religion) and Antioch University (Psychology). Spenser is originally from Hollywood where his father made a living making music for recording artists, TV commercials and film.
This year’s IUG Annual Conference in Washington, DC was a gigantic success and we’d like to acknowledge the 1600 attendees and the winners of the Be Innovative! Awards…
Most Innovative Implementation of eResource Discovery
Birmingham Public Library (AL) was recognized for using WebBridge LR (Link Resolver) to link to Amazon.com for e-resource discovery in WebPAC Pro, Innovative’s […]
There’s a fascinating article that just appeared in the New York Times about Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, the man who made a sound recording (of a woman singing) that predates Edison’s.
Since preservation is an obsession of librarians, Scott’s biography is interesting:
Scott is in many ways an unlikely hero of recorded sound. Born in Paris in […]
March 4, 2008 :
Program Management in a Large Public Library Environment
Here’s a little interview I did with Sarah Hickman, a Product Manager at Innovative for the Program Registration product. Our discussion focuses on “Program Management in a Large Public Library Environment.” Innovative has been working with partners like Scottsdale Public Library to manage program information efficiently and bring public program information into the discovery environments […]
Did you become a librarian because a copy of the AACR II was accidentally sent to you? Or because of the sensory experience of the library…the sound (maybe quieter than other public spaces), the sight of all those books in one place, people doing their best to buckle down and study. And yes, maybe even […]
February 12, 2008 :
Q&A: Facets, Tag Clouds, and Shoe Shopping
Here’s the first in a series of “Q&A” podcasts with Innovative staff. We’re calling this one Dinah Sanders on Three Challenges for New Discovery Tools.
Dinah is the Senor Product Manager for Encore and she hits on a few of its features like facets and tag clouds. There’s also a fun search example about shoe shopping…
Dinah […]
I’m Spenser Thompson (or Spenser, The Marketing Guy in this blog). I’ll be providing some marketing stuff like news about events, library tales, product news, library marketing in general, and other ephemera.
As you can see from my bio, I come from Hollywood (land of glamor) so I took a stab at the glamorous profession of […]
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